Strange Tale of Qingluan

The bright moonlight shone on the holy palace of Beiyi Kingdom, spreading out a silver halo, which was fascinating.There is a temple in the holy palace, and in the temple, the raging flames are flickering, like the claws of the underground devil.

The shadow of the flames was reflected on Hassan woman's face, and the flames made her beautiful eyes shine, waiting for the flames to subside, waiting for the person wearing a gray robe and dancing an unknown dance on the opposite side of the flames.

"Fire Priest, what did the Vulcan just say?" The woman asked eagerly as soon as the dancer stopped dancing and sat cross-legged.The man replied, "The god of fire said that Hassan's people are his brothers. He hopes that the royal family will become stronger so that the people will enjoy the prosperity of the country forever! When the princess gets married, if you want to make the country strong, you must choose one." A man with the same strength as him!"

The woman asked again: "But, where can I find such a man?" The man replied, "The Vulcan said that everything belongs to the princess's fate, but this fate is related to the prosperity and survival of the Hassan clan!"

The woman didn't ask any more questions, but just stared at the flames quietly, feeling melancholy and bewildered in her heart.There are as many men in the world as there are grains of sand in the great desert. It may not be so easy to choose a man related to 'fire' among them. Such a responsibility is really too heavy, too heavy...

The moonlight shines on the desolate sand dunes. At this moment, several men and women are sitting beside the camels, sitting around the bonfire, talking while warming up. They had no intention of interrupting their conversation, "City Master, it's cold in the desert, put on this dress."

Su Zhongming raised his head and declined politely, "No need, I'm not cold, you girls are most afraid of the cold, put it on!" Ye Shuangshuang hesitated, but did not follow suit.Su Zhongming got up, grabbed the robe in her hand and put it on her cummerbund, then sat back to the original position and continued to chat with other people.

Ye Shuangshuang sighed secretly, returned to her original position, took off the thick coat and sat by the campfire, staring at the campfire.Fei'er leaned over and whispered to her: "Sister Shuangshuang, the city lord cares about you, why are you unhappy?"

Ye Shuangshuang was depressed, and murmured in a low voice: "The city lord cares about me but doesn't take my care, how can I be happy, I entered Qingluan City to serve the city lord."

Fei'er smiled lightly, and comforted her, "Sister Shuangshuang, you can't think like that. You see, we care about the city lord on weekdays and do our best. The reward in return is the city lord's concern!"

Ye Shuangshuang turned her head, glanced at her, secretly felt that there was some truth in her heart, raised the corners of her lips to smile, and flicked her forehead lightly, "You clever girl!" The coat fell over her shoulders again.

After a night, early in the morning, Su Zhongming and others started on the road again. Children and girls were sitting firmly on the camel hump, and the men were leading the camels, stepping on the yellow sand. The camel walked leisurely with its companions without resting, and occasionally raised its hands to wipe the sweat.

Ye Shuangshuang took out a water bag, shook the water bag to estimate how much water was left, then looked at Su Zhongming in front of him, and yelled at him, "City Lord! It's so hot, are you thirsty? Drink some water!" Right?" Su Zhongming turned his head and replied with a smile: "I'm not thirsty, if you are thirsty, drink it!"

Ye Shuangshuang herself was not very thirsty, turned her head to look at Midoya, and asked her: "Midoya, do you want some water?" In order to let her understand, he deliberately held up the water bag and shook it in front of her.

Midoya shook her head, looked down at A Lin Tianduo in Huaili, and said a sentence in Chinese that was not fluent: "Give her a drink...she seems to...need water..." Ye Shuangshuang then threw the water bag to Let her feed A Lintian more water.

Yi Yeqing, who was leading the camel for Ye Shuangshuang and Feier, raised his head, watched Ye Shuangshuang catch the water bag thrown back by Midoya, and asked aloud, "How much water is there?" Ye Shuangshuang shook his head for the second time. After shaking the water bag, he replied: "There is about half of it left." Then he asked, "Where is yours? How much is left?"

Yi Yeqing didn't check it, but said with great certainty: "There are still two bags full, but I don't know how long we can last." Fei'er in front of Ye Shuangshuang couldn't help murmuring, "The city lord doesn't drink, it seems it's In order to retain more water..."

Ye Shuangshuang was full of helplessness, raised her head, looked at the scorching sun above her head, and couldn't help sighing: "I really hope it will rain..." Yi Yeqing led the camel, looked ahead, and replied: "I hope I can drink up the water soon." I found a place where someone lived before."

After walking for a day, he drank water a few times because he couldn't stand his thirst. When it was almost evening, Su Zhongming wanted to drink water again. He shook the water bag, but found that it was empty.He looked back at his partner behind him, wiped the sweat off his face, worried that their water was not enough, so he just endured it without asking.

How to do this?Are you going to die of thirst? —— Su Zhongming was worried, thinking so in his heart.He led the camel with the luggage and walked straight ahead. After crossing a large sand dune, he stopped suddenly and was stunned.

"What's wrong with the city lord?" Gong He led the camel and was the first to follow up. Seeing that Su Zhongming didn't leave, he couldn't help but wondered.Su Zhongming raised his hand and pointed to the greenery in the distance ahead, "Look! What do you think it will be?"

Gong He squinted his eyes and stared straight ahead. Behind him, Feier and Ye Shuangshuang on the camels also looked at the green in the distance in front of him. After a long time, Ye Shuangshuang exclaimed overjoyed: "Ah! Could it be an oasis? !"

Gong He stared at the emerald green in the distance, and blurted out: "If it's really an oasis, this oasis is probably not small..." Yi Yeqing led the camel up, followed their gazes, and said: " If it’s really a big oasis, it’s very likely that it’s the Qianhua City of the Hassan tribe.”

"Qianhua City?" Su Zhongming turned his head, looked at Yi Yeqing suspiciously, and blurted out these three words.Yi Yeqing explained: "Qianhua City is said to be the royal city of Beiyi Hassan. On the high mountain behind the Fire Temple, there is what the Lord is looking for."

"Mountain of Gods..." Su Zhongming looked at the emerald green in the distance again, and murmured three words.Yi Yeqing led the camel, and walked towards the emerald green, and said to the partner behind him, "Hurry up! No matter whether it is or not, go there early to find water before it is dark." Bar!"

Su Zhongming's throat was as dry as fire, and without thinking, he pulled the camel and followed Yi Yeqing, and Gong He beside him also led the camel to keep up with them.

As they had guessed, that piece of emerald green was indeed a big oasis, and as Su Zhongming expected, it was indeed the royal city of Beiyi Hassan——Qianhua City.When dusk fell, they arrived there. After drinking a few sips of cool river water by the river, they entered the royal city.

After a day's journey, everyone was hungry. When they crossed the street, they saw food stalls and smelled delicious food. They became even hungrier, so they went straight forward, tied up their camels, and sat down at the table without thinking about anything.

The stall owner took a look at them, and then asked: "Are the guests coming from afar?" Su Zhongming replied with a smile: "We are from abroad." The stall owner knew it well, and asked again: "How many guests want to eat?" What?" It was still Su Zhongming who answered first, and said simply: "As long as it is filling your stomach, you can eat whatever you want, and it must be enough."

After hearing this, the owner of the stall retreated, and after a while, a few pieces of mutton pancakes and bowls of goat milk tea were served. Those people were so hungry that they immediately raised their hands and competed for their share.

When Gong He was drinking goat milk tea and eating sesame seed cakes, his eyes were not idle, he looked around, Feier noticed his actions, and asked in confusion: "What's wrong with Gong He?" Gong He swallowed the food and answered He said: "I've walked all the way, but I don't seem to see many young men. Is it true that all the men here have gone to war?"

Yitian took a bite of the biscuits, and said indifferently, "Why do you care so much about Guoqing? It has nothing to do with us." The owner of the stall listened to this conversation, raised his head, and interjected, "Where is there such a thing as fighting every day?" What? Those unmarried men all ran to the gate of the Holy Palace!"

"What are you doing at the gate of the palace?" Su Zhongming asked puzzled.The owner of the stall told me generously, "Princess Crescent Lake, the jewel in Khan's palm, has reached the age to leave the cabinet. I heard that I heard the oracle not long ago, saying that I want to recruit a young man related to fire as a consort. Today is the fifth day." , my son went too!"

Everyone understood what they heard, they lowered their heads and continued to eat cakes and drink goat milk tea, only Fei'er spoke up and said to everyone: "So it's a marriage recruitment meeting! I've been in Qingluan City for so many years, and I've never seen such a lively event, why don't we go and watch it?" Let's see? By the way, let's see how good-looking the princess is, okay?"

Su Zhongming didn't have this interest at all, he just said: "You just love to care about other people's lifelong affairs..." Fei'er pretended to be innocent, and blurted out: "Just watch for a while, anyway, I won't have a chance after getting married!"

Hearing this, Su Zhongming was taken aback for a moment, "Why? Aren't you from Shuilingzhu?" He vaguely remembered that most of the people from Shuilingzhu were allowed to talk about marriage.Fei'er opened her mouth, but the answer surprised Su Zhongming, "I...I want to work hard to be promoted to Xiangxuanzhu and become a disciple of Xiangxuanzhu!"

"Huh? You want to enter the incense and Xuanzhu? It's not easy to be promoted to that level! Let's talk about it after your medical skills are outstanding!" Gong He replied while biting a sesame seed cake.Fei'er couldn't help but blurted out, "Of course I know! That's why I came out to see the world and increase my knowledge..."

Su Zhongming smiled and said: "Little girl has ambition!" Then he greeted the stall owner, "Shopkeeper, please bring me a bowl of water!" The stall owner responded, and after a while, a bowl of transparent night body was brought over.

Su Zhongming picked up the bowl, and said to Fei'er, "I, the city lord, will use this water to encourage you!" Fei'er took the bowl and drank a big gulp, but she saw her bulging her cheeks. Before swallowing the water, he suddenly spit it out in another gulp, and took a sip of goat milk tea.

"This water... is weird?!" Su Zhongming was stunned.After hearing this, Yi Yeqing grabbed the bowl without saying a word, put it up to his nose and sniffed it, and then affirmed: "It's wine!" Su Zhongming hurriedly called the owner of the stall, and complained, "Shopkeeper, I want it." It's water, why did you serve a bowl of wine? Little girls can't drink wine..."

The owner of the stall came out of the kitchen and explained helplessly: "Customer, I didn't know that you came here to drink for her. We don't sell water here but wine. If you want water, I can only give you wine."

Su Zhongming was dumbfounded, but fortunately he was broad-minded and didn't argue with the owner of the stall. After filling his stomach, he paid the money and left the stall with his partner.There was nothing to do in front of them, so they led the camels and headed to the Holy Palace. Regardless of whether they were interested in going to the princess' wedding ceremony, anyway, the goal was to go there in the end, so it was better to go at this time.

Wearing an embroidered short jacket and a pleated skirt, a slightly exposed little goblin, and a black veil hanging in a bun, the Hassan woman, holding a large pottery pot on top of her head by chance, walked slowly from the side of Su Zhongming and others. After passing by, at that moment, there are always curious eyes cast on these foreign guests, looking at the appearance of the men and the attire of the women among them.

Su Zhongming and the others paid no attention to their gazes. They walked straight ahead and crossed the long street. When they were about to reach the gate of the Holy Palace, everyone was shocked by the long dragon that almost blocked the entrance.

"Oh my god! It's not like inviting relatives, it's almost like receiving rations!" Fei'er was so frightened that she opened her mouth and said.Gong and Zhang Changbozi tried their best to look at the front of the dragon, but they couldn't see the end, so they couldn't help but blurted out, "Many people can't see what is in front of them at all."

Su Zhongming was stunned by the scene in front of him, frowned slightly, and said: "They have blocked the gate, how can we enter the palace to ask to see Khan?" Yi Tian blurted out generously: "Don't worry about him so much! We are here to ask for an audience Khan’s, it’s not about participating in the princess wedding, just squeeze in!”

Su Zhongming had no choice but to say: "Okay... let's squeeze in first." He led his companions along the direction of the long dragon to the gate of the holy palace, only a few steps away, when several guards appeared unexpectedly, blocked their way.

"You guys! Go back and line up! It's not your turn yet, what team is missing! If you miss the team, you will be dragged out for exhibition!" One of the guards sternly sternly spoke to them.Yitian was dissatisfied immediately when he heard the words, and said angrily, "Keep your dog eyes wide open! Where do we seem to come to recruit relatives? And bring a woman with you? Even if it is, there is no need to queue up with this clothes!"

The guard didn't seem to believe what he said, and he still sternly said, "How do I know if you guys deliberately made such a name for the sake of the mission?" A soft voice came from behind.

"Are you from a foreign country?" the voice asked.Su Zhongming and others followed the sound and turned their heads, seeing a young man approaching slowly, and the guards immediately bowed respectfully to the man, and called out "His Royal Highness" respectfully.

The author has something to say:

I tested my name for two days!

A lot of them were dropped because the scores were too low...

When I was about to spit snow, I finally scored 92 points!

It still means the moon (nickname is Xiaoyue)

It should last longer...

I got up at dawn this morning

Then it's too early to go...

I was called by the doctor before I was ready to drink water...orz

Then there was not enough water, so I could only continue to drink water and drank 2 liters!

But you can celebrate the new year with peace of mind!

By the way, I was quite depressed a few years ago.

I often feel very good after going to bed early!

Mood really has something to do with sleep!